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• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  .   These were all things I learned during my freshman year of college ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning and I shall have no end: the beam of light stretches out before and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of ... of social media among today's prefrosh, I guess you could say we were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  sort your mail. I offer up your daily dose of snark. It's a rockin' good ... , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company - there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... , listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school ... Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  existential crisis with your morning dose of college applications"] writing ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  college being the only time of your life when your only obligation is to ... The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... ’re not up lol (okay if not, just thought to offer) I'll probably be awake ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday. Here's (most of) what happened As I was assembling this blog post, my ... built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  ! ^^; I'm Piper, an MIT student and College Confidential bum turned ... free to ask me questions! Otherwise, stay tuned. I have plenty of ... . Literally. The likelihood of you seeing MIT quite like this is somewhat small

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... of any glass ceiling; my future looked more like an open sunroof. My

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George Keller '48. He lived in the Bay Area, was chairman of Chevron Oil at the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010